Amusement device



Sept. 9, 1941. c LoRow 2,255,175

AMUSEMENT DEVICE Fil ed Dec. 22, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet l Corez Lorow Sept. 9, 1941.

C. LOROW AMUSEMBNT DEVICE Filed Dec. 22, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 CorZez Lorow Patented Sept. 9, 1941 UNITED STATES PTNT rama 1 Claim.

This invention relates to an amusement device of the type known as a merry-go-round, the general object of the invention being to provide means for causing the occupants to travel about a vertical circular path at the same time they are travelling about a horizontal circular path.

The invention also consists in certain other features of construction, combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view with parts in section.

Fig. 2 is a top plan vie wof the device.

Fig. 3 is a view of one of the brace bars.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view through the top of the post.

Fig. 5 is a view of the plug which is placed in the top of the post.

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view approximately on line 66 of Fig. 1 showing the arm in horizontal position.

In these drawings the numeral l indicates a supporting casing having a base 2 for resting on a supporting surface. A supporting structure 3 is located in the casing and carries a motor M and a bearing 4 which is centrally arranged in the casing. A vertically arranged shaft or post 5 passes through the casing and through the bearing 4 and is driven from the motor by means of the gearing 6. The shaft also passes through a bearing 1 at the top of the casing. Arms 8 radiate from the upper part of the shaft 5 and brace bars 9 have hooks at their ends, one hook of each bar engaging an outer part of an arm 8 and the other hook engaging a hole l0 'formed in a cap Il which supporting bar [6 is provided with a yoke 41 at its ends in which chairs or seats are rotatably supported.

Ihus as the shaft or post 5 is rotated by the mater M the arms, shafts l2 and bars Ni Will rotate bodily about a vertical axis. As the shafts l 2 are rotated by the engagement of the cogs with the rack l5, the bars I6 are rotated about horizontal axes so that the seats travel in a vertically arranged circular path at the same time as the parts are travelling in a circular path about a vertical axis. Thus the device combines the movements of a Ferris Wheel and a merrygo-round.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction, combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided such changes fall within the sco-pe of the appended clainr.

What I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is nular rack l5 at the top of the casing. A supporting bar [6 has its center keyed to one end of a stub-shaft 25 journalled in the bearing 13 and is rotated by shaft l2 through the instrumentality of sprocket-wheels 26 and 21, on the shaft 12 and stubshaft 25, by a chain 28. Each An amusement device comprising a substantially conical shaped casing, an annular rack secured to its upper edge, a, centrally disposed bearing within the casing adjacent its lower end,

a perpendicular shaft extending through the the arms,stub-shafts journalled in the depend' ing bearings, a supporting bar fixed totheouter ends of the stub-shafts, fork-shaped yo-kes formed on the free ends of the arms, chairs pivotally disposed between the yokes adjacent their enter extremities, a sprocket gear secured to the inner end of each stub-shaft, a. radially extending shaft supported beneath each arm, a gear on the inner end of each shaft meshng with the rack, a sprocket gear on the outer end of each shaft, a chain connecting the sprocket gear ci each stub-shait to the sprocket gear of each radially extending shaft and braces connecting the arms to the top of the perpendicular shaft.

CORTEZ LOROW, r 

